... disclosure has a heterogeneous impact on the market performance and profitability of USA energy and raw material firms. While a good ESG score can improve stock market performance, potentially attracting public investment and improving capital structure, this requires high levels of capital investment...

... positively impact a bank’s performance after the introduction of the mobile application feature of check deposits, whereas social risk negatively impacts banking financial performance. These findings support the hypothesis that technology implementation improves the profitability and growth of traditional...

..., the most diverse companies are more profitable [return on assets (ROA)] and valued by the market [price to earnings ratio (PER)] in a confidence interval of 95%. Originality/value These results indicate that companies should promote corporate diversity as a management strategy, as it is observed...

... Rambaud can be contacted at: scruz@ual.es 02 04 2019 11 06 2019 08 07 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Savings operations Profitability Risk quota Probability of survival saving quota G22 G23 H55...

... affect firm performance in terms of profitability. As a high debt ratio seems to increase the agency costs and the risk of losing control of the firm, SME owners and managers tend to finance their businesses with equity capital to a fairly high degree. Practical implications – As debt policy...